WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — Two Republican lawmakers have introduced a bill that would reward $1 million to an individual or group that can recover former Internal Revenue Service director Lois Lerner’s lost emails. Reps. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, and Bill Flores, R-Texas, introduced the Identify and Recover Sent E-mails (IRS) Act Wednesday.
“It seems that each time the IRS has evidence that will either prove with certainty its guilt or innocence, the evidence disappears which both common sense and the law indicate the evidence such as emails must have proved the IRS’s impropriety if not outright crimes,” Gohmert said in a statement. “It is time the IRS either comes clean, or has a special prosecutor to clean it up. This bill should help in the interim.
On top of the $1 million award for the recovery of the emails, the bill also gives $500,000 for information regarding the destruction of the emails that can lead to the prosecution of those involved...